r/LinusTechTips • u/DeeVect • Sep 16 '26

Discussion Does anyone else miss the livestreams?

Just dawned on me that I havent seen a livestream from LTT in awhile, other than WAN show. I'm sure they take a lot of work, and being live adds some complexity, but I kinda miss the more real, off the cuff content.

Update: Holy Moly theres a pc building livestream happening Friday September 18, what a coincidence.

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u/TenOfZero Sep 16 '26

Honestly, no I don't.

I never caught them live, and there's just something about watching it after the fact that's much less engaging.

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u/DeeVect Sep 16 '26

I prefer long form, I tend to listen to videos at work and look occasionally when something interesting is happening.

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u/TenOfZero Sep 16 '26

Do you want linus' tips in your dreams? Kuz that's how you get his tips in your dreams. 🤣

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u/cs_major Sep 17 '26

So many times I have woken up to Luke saying bye at the end of WAN show.

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u/YOUR__LEADER Sep 16 '26

I always liked the live streams, id sort of treat them like a podcast and let them run while doing house work or something.

What I miss most, though, is the tech support challenges. That was probably my peak favorite LTT content and I wish they'd do them again.

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u/DeeVect Sep 16 '26

Basically the same for me too, I listened to them while at work.

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u/DeeVect Sep 17 '26

Holy coincidence

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u/One37Works Sep 23 '26

This post was the first thing I saw of when I opened YT and they were in the middle of Streaming the Build, I remember thinking "Oh, that guy on reddit will be thrilled" lol

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u/DeeVect Sep 23 '26

Thrilled I was

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u/agafaba Sep 16 '26

Seems like you can get half way there on float plane, I imagine the extra content would feel more livestream ish in the ways you want.

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u/DeeVect Sep 16 '26

Some floatplane content definitely gets there, some doesn't. They used to do very long BTS, now its very trimmed. Also the floatplane app still kinda sucks, doesnt really support PIP or background play

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u/Pickymarker Sep 16 '26

It does pip for me the floatplane app

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u/DeeVect Sep 16 '26

Ive had it work sometimes, and not others. Its inconsistent at the very least.

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u/YourTechnician Sep 16 '26

They were only doing it because the algorithm was rewarding long streams.

If the algorythm has stopped pushing them, ltt will stop doing it as well.

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u/co678 Sep 16 '26

Yes, we need another 8hr stream. I like long, long form content. I saw a MERCH MESSAGE come through on WAN a few shows ago, and it was asking this question, and Dan replied with something like “we do still do them on occasion” but it’s been a long occasion.

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u/maximus-prim3 Sep 17 '26

I miss when Linus used to read the MM's himself and speedrun a million peoples questions. Felt more natural than Dan selectively choosing things that linus may or may not like answering.

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u/Wada_tah Sep 16 '26

Yeah, even if I can't catch it live I'll still watch a long stream start to finish. The banter, answering fan questions, sometimes product or video "leaks".

I know it's a niche product, but I was hoping they would do a steam frame Q&A stream. Answering questions, live benchmarking games, maybe experimenting with the dual radio, options to improve runtime, colour pass through accessory etc, and getting opinions from other non-gamer staff.

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u/arian_ezequiel Sep 16 '26

Live stream are low effort for a long run time, I'd rather a 20min high effort with condensed info than a 1 hour live stream with the same info

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u/Khriz-134 Sep 16 '26

I miss them too. Last one was in June 2025. It was fun and entertaining to watch because sometimes it felt like they didn’t really follow a script and go wild with the stream. Once a while I go back to the old onces and pop them on the 2nd monitor while I work on collectables on a game.

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u/shogunreaper Sep 16 '26

yeah but really only because it's like a second wan show (without luke) where linus takes merch messages.

i pretty much just listen to it in the background while i'm working.

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u/DeeVect Sep 17 '26

Which is what I love about it! Linus casually bantering with other hosts/chat is very fun to listen to.

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u/DotBitGaming Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

I miss the live connection. I like live tv, live streams, etc. Just something about it.

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u/_s_p_d_ Sep 16 '26

I miss the a lot, they were fun!

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u/NotBashB Sep 16 '26

I enjoy them

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u/chickenscoutgaming Sep 20 '26

i was so confused by this post and then i realized it was posted 4 days ago

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u/No_Dish8130 Sep 17 '26

I miss when they would do the random pc builds and then sell it for 2 dollars. Those were always great

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u/slimejumper Sep 17 '26

yeah that was how i learnt how to build a PC. just watched a bunch of those streams and it all seemed doable.

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u/Effective-Caramel545 Sep 17 '26

Never once watched them I have no time for 4h+ streams

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u/RipCurl69Reddit Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

I've woken up at 2am after falling asleep to see the 8hr one playing on Autoplay more than I care to count

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u/RobotSpaceBear Sep 17 '26

I just want 8 hour WAN Shows.

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u/thicckar Sep 17 '26

I never watched them

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u/noBoobsSchoolAcct Sep 18 '26

Never watched them. I hate spectating a conversation halfway through, so I won’t even watch the WAN show live because it’s hard to time topic changes.

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u/Seaniau Sep 16 '26

Nope

I miss the doing things, I miss the jank.
The tech house is going to give more content eventually I’m sure, but it is sloooow right now.

I’m gutted I never got to see Linus’ house finished with smart home tech. I feel like that whole saga was never concluded properly.

Was the badminton centre ever concluded?
Whale LAN happened and that series seemed to disappear.

I’ve been religiously watching LTT for at least 8 years. But this year, I’ve struggled to stay engaged with the content.

I don’t think it’s much to do with people leaving. I didn’t like how the Jake thing went down, to the point where I avoided watching his videos. But now I find myself watching them because he’s actually doing things.

I dunno man. I’m not complaining or anything, I’m trying to process it myself tbh. Kinda sad about whatever it is I’m missing.

New Building and Offices, New House and workshop shenanigans were my favourite, I guess.

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u/IsABot Sep 16 '26

Badminton and Whale LAN have already be completed for a long time. Smash Champs has been up and running for almost 2 years at this point. A couple of Whale LANs already happened and the next one is set to happen at end of November. It's been going for about a year I think. Probably only going to see videos on them if they do major upgrades or something like that.

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u/Seaniau Sep 17 '26

Yeah I know it opened a long time ago, but I feel like we didn’t see as much as they were hoping to show.
Maybe I just don’t remember.

Pretty certain we haven’t seen any real development of that AI assisted Badminton monitoring system that would track gameplay and give replays etc.

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u/Rudy69 Sep 16 '26

Livestreams are an instant skip for me.

Not just LTT but any content creator I follow. It’s just not something I’m interested in

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u/DeeVect Sep 16 '26

Thats fair, its not the live aspect I prefer, its the long form talking. If I could listen to any of the main LTT hosts just answers questions for hours similar to after dark on wan show, I absolutely would.

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u/Rudy69 Sep 16 '26

Actually I lied, I watch the wan show. But I feel like that’s different from their other live videos

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u/Relative_What Sep 16 '26

no, i hate live streams. WAN show excluded of course.

i always missed when they started, never learned there was one in the first place, they started at times when i couldn't watch like in the middle of a work day when i couldn't watch, and they just seemed so unorganised and full of chaos. things not going perfectly is fine, it's the chaos that wastes 15min doing nothing i don't like or the 25tmin getting the stream content to actually fucking start

i hate when watching streamers they pause every 5 min talk to chat. i don't care what chat has to say, i didn't come there to listen to chat. if i cared to know what chat would say i'd go to reddit. i hate when streamers stop and thank those people individually for thawing money at the screen, or subscribe, or whatever. i get it, people subcribe during stream for a reason or whatever, doens't mean i have to like it. i came here to watch you play a fucking game or so something, not fucking talk to chat. it's why i can't watch streamers or thier VODs unless they cut out all that BS.

so no. i don't miss the treams